Proceedings of the General Council, 52, 71, 107, 116-17. For Houston's letter see Yoakum, History of Texas, II 447. General Houston declared that the chairman of the military committee (Wyatt Hanks) through personal dislike for him was throwing obstacles in the way of the organization of the army. And the above report, he said, originally contained such indecorous remarks about him that the council had thought it necessary to expunge them.—Houston to Smith, December 17, 1835, in Yoakum, II 453. The indecorous matter seems to have been to the effect that the importance of supplying the volunteer army could not be neglected by proceeding immediately, simply “to gratify the wishes of General Sam Houston,” to the election of officers for the regular army. See W. Roy Smith's “The Quarrel between Governor Smith and the General Council,” etc., in the Quarterly, V 310.
